Malacoda
Samuel Beckett * Track #1 On Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates
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Malacoda by Samuel Beckett
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What happens when you take an intensely intelligent young man, overcome with grief at the loss of his father, obsessed with Dante, and in possession of a decent sense of humour? The poem ‘Malacoda’, of course.
First published in 1935 as part of Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates, the poem is, like...
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thrice he came
the undertaker's man
impassible behind his scutal bowler
to measure
is he not paid to measure
this incorruptible in the vestibule
this malebranca knee deep in the lilies
Malacoda knee-deep in the lilies
Malacoda for all the expert awe
that felts his perineum mutes his signal
sighing up through the heavy air
must it be it must be it must be
find the weeds engage them in the garden
hear she may see she need not
to coffin
with assistant ungulata
find the weeds engage their attention
hear she must see she need not
to cover
to be sure cover cover all over
your targe allow me hold your sulphur
divine dogday glass set fair
stay Scarmilion stay stay
lay this Huysum on the box
mind the imago it is he
hear she must see she must
all aboard all souls
half-mast aye aye
nay
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When did Samuel Beckett release Malacoda?
Samuel Beckett released Malacoda on Tue Jan 01 1935.